Humanities and Fine Arts 191HFA19 - FYS-ExMachina:Humanities/21Cen

In some college classrooms, you have to silence and put away your digital gadgets. This course is different: you will be using these gadgets to learn, to collaborate, and to discover new approaches to old subjects, including philosophy, history, art, music and literature. This course will introduce you to the Digital Humanities - a discipline that addresses how computers and other digital technologies are reshaping the study of what it means to be human. Digital Humanities is also a set of practices that you will experiment with hands-on. For example, we will learn how to use software to "read" a novel, how to approach Twitter as a historical archive, how to translate a song into a digital image, and how to analyze electronic literature like flash poems and video games.

Open to first-year Humanities and Fine Arts Exploratory Track students and first-year HFA Majors.